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Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars
Date: 
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:54:04 GMT
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"Huw Millington" <hmillington@cix.co.uk> writes:

It seems that my home page has died in the last hour or so! I can't even get
on via FTP to check the contents.

You've been hit by the /. effect.  Your URL was posted on
http://www.slashdot.org, and probably got enough hits to completely
swamp the machine.  It's a common occurrence.

--
Alan Shutko <shutkoa@ugsolutions.com> - (314) 344-5214



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  Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
 
Alan Shutko wrote in message ... (...) get (...) #@$%^ geeks... :-p Jesse ___...___ Jesse The Jolly Jingoist Looking for answers? Read the rec.toys.lego FAQ! (URL) in Deja News! (URL) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
 
(...) It's older than slashdot - it was a common occurrence on the net once people figured out that they could upload nude pictures to ftp sites, and post an announcement on the nude pictures newsgroups. The ftp sites would die a quick death. (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
 
Alan Shutko wrote in message ... (...) get (...) I'm back online on a new server. My ISP had to take action when site traffic jumped from 2.4K bytes/sec. to 9.6K bytes/sec yesterday at 9pm! They were amazed at the 'slashdot' effect! The site is now (...) (26 years ago, 18-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Droid development kit picture at my web page!
 
It seems that my home page has died in the last hour or so! I can't even get on via FTP to check the contents. Perhaps my ISP objected to the number of hits or something. I'll try and get it sorted. Huw Huw Millington wrote in message ... (...) (26 years ago, 17-Feb-99, to lugnet.robotics, lugnet.starwars)

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